President Bush, his father, President George H.W. Bush, and Henry Kissinger will be eulogizing former President Gerald Ford today at his funeral at the National Cathedral. On Saturday, Ford’s former chief of staff, Dick Cheney, paid tribute to him.

Dick Cheney: “We do know this: America was spared the worst, and this was the doing of an American president. For all the grief that never came, for all the wounds that were never inflicted, the people of the United States will forever stand in debt to the good man and faithful servant we mourn tonight.”

In an interview not published until after his death, President Ford criticized the war in Iraq as well as Cheney. Ford said, “He was an excellent chief of staff. First class. But I think Cheney has become much more pugnacious.” Ford said he agreed with former Secretary of State Colin Powell’s assertion that Cheney developed a “fever” about the threat of terrorism and Iraq.